[haiku] Re: Willing to work for your project.(George)
- From: George zhao <raimann.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:00:52 -0400
Hi Philippe,
The configure problem is solved and get the nightly version built, now
I guess it's good to go.
Struggling in setup the developing, debugging and testing environment
now, I got some help from IRC, hopefully could figure out a good way
to editing code, build image, load it up and do the test and
validation in the coming days.
Do you have any suggestion about it? Thanks!
Have a good day!
George
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:26 PM, George zhao <raimann.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> Thank you for you reply, and really glad to get so much information from you.
>
>> Haiku used to have a working PPP stack some years ago, but due to a
>> major (and welcome) network stack redesign, it doesn't compile anymore
>> and was not ported to new API since. One thing to keep in mind for
>> this project is that Haiku network stack is not plain C but "kernel"
>> C++, including the previous PPP code, and only the public interface
>> between modules are C ones. So you must be skilled enough in C++
>> (included templates), not only C.
>> Your experience with PPPoA and PPPoE is definitively a plus ;-)
>
> About this working PPP stack, is it possible to get that working haiku
> version now? It will be help to get a "hello world" PPP link running
> at the beginning point, and for the future development. I can look
> into the packet during the LCP and IPCP negotiation in the future for
> the debugging sake, I think.
>
> For a debugging environment, does the current system support the step
> by step debugging using a GDB server? Can you give me some information
> about it.
>
> In general I have experience in the developing C++ program. Honestly
> speaking, in the industry level, I don't have much C++ background, but
> I've been using C++ intensively for various project during my
> undergraduate(4 years) and PhD program(almost 3 years now). I will
> read the current implementation of the whole system, and try to catch
> up with the coding style in the student guidance page of the haiku
> website, and as long as we get the design part done, I think it will
> not be a problem once we come to the coding part.
>
>> You'll find the current network stack code here:
>>
>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/network
>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/headers/private/net
>> (internal headers)
>>
>> The broken/not-yet-ported PPP sub-stack is here:
>> http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/network/ppp
>>
>
> Thank you for pointing out the project fold to me. For this part, do
> you have any design specification of the PPP module in pocket? The
> code is well wrote, I think. Even though I don't have much time to dig
> into it, it looks good at the first sight. I saw PPP PAP is there, and
> didn't find PPP CHAP, does it mean that in the previous implementation
> there is no CHAP module. If it does, then PPP CHAP can be a new
> feature to implement during the summer. What do you think?
>
>> It may not be obvious, but please don't use our last "official"
>> r1/alpha2 release as your development target.
>> Since this release, a lot of things were changed in Haiku, both on
>> content *and* build system.
>> Please use instead some recent nightly releases. Another official
>> release, dubbed r1/alpha3 is scheduled before GSoC starts, so in every
>> case the target will be more recent thant r1/alpha2.
>>
>> Don't forget that the code of any Haiku's GSoC projects should build
>> and run well with both gcc2 and gcc4 ABI,
>> so use a gcc hybrid build and get used to build your component for both.
>> Read on our web site how to build Haiku (or part of it) for gcc2 or gcc4.
>
> For the configure checking, I believe that I get all the essential
> apps installed in the Snow Leopard, but it always failed in lacking
> some .h files, for the gcc2 and gcc4 checking, during the ./configure
> execution. Does current cross compiling supports Mac Snow Leopard? I
> have installed the Xcode 3 and the latest binutils. Or I have to get
> an Ubuntu or Suse to start with, which are the only two systems I can
> get up to now. Thanks!
>
>
> Thank you for your time, and have a good day!
> George
>
>
>
>
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